Board 8 > How would they do in a contest? Day 251 ft Liu Kang, Jack Bauer, Blaze Fielding

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This is a topic to rate the contest strength of potential newcomers in the current contest environment.

I will pick the characters to rate and discuss for each day from user nominations - whoever the 3 most nominated characters are at that time. If there are more than 3 I will pick randomly. You can nominate any number of characters at any time, but you cannot nominate the same character twice.

All characters who were present in the 2018 Character Battle will NOT be eligible. Otherwise you can nominate any character that has appeared in video games; even comic book characters. This will exclude real-life athletes who have only appeared in long running sports series, however I will accept those who have their own games such as Shaq. I will accept nominations for iconic gaming duos too, if there is a compelling reason for both characters to be linked (either co-starring in a game ala Banjo & Kazooie, or always appearing together like Callie & Marie from Splatoon).

Each day will have a separate topic, and nominations will carry over. As far as actually rating the character's contest strength; I ask that users rank a characters potential strength with one of the following qualifiers - LAW Fodder, Low Fodder, Mid Fodder, High Fodder, Fodder Line, Low Midcarder, Midcarder, High Midcarder, Near Elite, Elite, LAW Tier (capable of beating Link). I will average all the ratings given to a character to come up with their final ranking. I have included a highlighted entrant from Character Battle X on each tier of the strength rankings below, to provide a baseline for each.

Note that LAW Fodder is meant to be a tier reserved for the weakest possible characters to put into a contest. A character will only be placed there if at least 3/4ths of the voters for that day agree on the LAW Fodder rating, and no ratings above Low Fodder are given. If either of those conditions are not met, the character will not be eligible for the LAW Fodder tier.

Current Character Strength Rankings: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P1AIhHywBiLd6VAMZMNEGX-HW2td8u1D0Iw_tzHsORw/edit?usp=sharing

Nomination List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-KnSBDzppzPK5Ug1zmx8_x0bG4tqFDMPPH2k8J3s8sk/edit?usp=sharing

If you feel that a character has been over or under-ranked, or if a new development has come up that would affect their contest strength, you may nominate them for a re-ranking. You may nominate one character per day for this, and 3 votes are needed to get them on the slate. One character with 3 votes will come up for re-ranking today.

Re-ranking Nomination List: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V6dx-tu-FD1rCxbX69eQwEzE7x1F6nNRNFochYHu1dc/edit?usp=sharing

Results from Day 250:

Marge Simpson (The Simpsons) is Mid Fodder
Mimic (Dragon Quest) is Low Fodder
Grue (Zork) is LAW Fodder

Here is today's trio to rank:

Liu Kang (Mortal Kombat)
Jack Bauer (24: The Game)
Blaze Fielding (Streets of Rage)

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Going back to the MK character poll, Liu Kang did. . . fine. He is a memorable character thanks to his dragon motif and over-the-top battle cries. I think most actual MK fans dislike him, but that won't have much of an impact on his contest strength here. I'll give him Mid Fodder.

Jack Bauer is Low Fodder. It's been over ten years since 24 was a relevant tv show (the revival without Jack failed miserably). Also Keifer Sutherland likely far better known on this site for voicing Snake in MGS5, than he is for playing a character in a long-finished tv show. He might have been worth something back when the Jack Bauer Interrogation meme was a thing.

What do we know about Streets of Rage on the site? The Genesis poll from 2018 put the SoR series between Phantasy Star and Shining Force, which isn't terrible considering this is JRPGfaqs. Streets of Rage 2 appeared in the 2009 games contest only to get destroyed by 2 Nintendo games and the original Doom.

Blaze is probably the best-liked character from the series, and unsurprisingly she's hot. Also SoR4 is due out this year. I think Blaze will have enough to be Mid Fodder.

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Low Fodder for all three.

Also, nominate Donald Duck for re-ranking on the same basis as my Mickey Mouse nom, only Donald definitely won't be as strong.

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LUI low
blaze mid

Liu Kang (Mortal Kombat) - Mid fodder

barely.

Jack Bauer (24: The Game) - Low fodder
Blaze Fielding (Streets of Rage) - Low fodder

Streets of Rage 2 would be one of the top non-Sonic Genesis games just about anywhere and even here on RPGfaqs it's the most popular game in that category and just barely (behind by 0.01) the third highest rated behind Phantasy Star IV and Shining Force II. Blaze has TJF and is playable in all three Streets of Rage games. If gamefaqs cares at all about Genesis games outside Sonic, Mortal Kombat, and Street Fighter, she probably should be able to make mid fodder.

...I truly do not think gamefaqs cares.

I think we need to rerank Tina Armstrong since she comes to mind as "TJF character most people haven't even heard of at this point" but Mickey's already at 2 so I'll say re-rank Mickey first.

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Second Re-ranking Donald Duck

Day 252 is up: https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78411412

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